Russia will not accept a losing war, and the Russians will have to fight with dignity, but if they are given a chance not to fight, I believe the Russians will seize it.
For example, the big decision to release Qinhuangdao to Russia temporarily satisfies Russia’s economic interests, and Russia can naturally endure the inconvenience of not having access to the sea for the time being with a certain return.
However, going to Russia for a long time will definitely attack the seaport again and again. This is their historical destiny. If Russia wants to embrace the sea, their contradiction with Daiwa and Britain will be irreconcilable and will develop into a long-term confrontation. This is the most beneficial for Germany, because Germany hopes that Russia can put its strength in the East for a long time if it is not Russia’s eastward expansion war once or twice.
So Bismarck met with the Russian ambassador and made the most reasonable suggestion to Russia just before the Russian war broke out.
Bismarck told the Russians that if Germany could say that it would allow Russia to make a big port, Russia should accept it.
The Russian ambassador said that the Russian law accepted the situation that it had been held hostage by the eastern countries for a long time, and could not tolerate the situation that its own seaport was greatly controlled.
Bismarck said that once the Russian army is defeated, it will lose the opportunity to gain access to the eastern sea forever and be blocked by maritime countries in the cold northern hemisphere forever.
The Russian ambassador was superstitious about the Russian military force Bismarck, who reminded them of a French experience.
Then Bismarck put forward a very attractive suggestion, that is, Russia might as well benefit from the big ports and improve the transportation conditions between Russia and the East. Bismarck thought that it was a good choice for Russia to build a Siberian railway to completely connect Russian soil with the Eastern Ocean.
Bismarck said that he is very optimistic about the economic prospects of such a Siberian railway. If Russia needs it, Germany will be very willing to support it financially because Germany is not worried about the repayment ability of this railway at all.
The Russian ambassador was told, and then his suggestion was written into a report and returned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. After analysis, the Russian Foreign Ministry believed that this was a perfect solution to the current dilemma of "fighting again, not winning and retreating"
Russia needs to temporarily make concessions to the eastern countries, and then build the Siberian railway. The railway completion day is to recover the original benefits from the eastern countries. When the time comes, let alone build a railway in Huludao, the port of Qinhuangdao can also be taken away, and it can further go south to Tianjin to build a railway to Shandong to extend the Russian control area to the south step by step and go deep into the warm tropical region.
So when the big army cut off Huludao and Jinzhou, Russia noted that Germany was willing to accept German mediation and shut down the war motor just before the outbreak.
Italy also accepted the German mediation, saying that Italy is a peaceful country, but most of them are willing to talk about what conditions are considered for peace.
So Yamato Russian diplomats presided over the negotiating table in Bismarck.
According to the management, if you don’t quarrel with each other and blackmail, you won’t get to the point. Manchu scholars often suffer from this loss because they are not used to being like a vendor. The interests will be haggled over at the negotiating table than when they fantasize about feather fans and black scarves. They will applaud and compromise every time they are blackmailed. Don’t you know that this is just a negotiation field?
Great diplomats have long been used to all this, because most of the first generation of diplomats came from comprador businessmen, and then they were sent to all parts of the world to hire diplomatic experts and legal experts from various countries as consultants, step by step, so that they were infected with the western diplomatic style in actual combat. Later, the second and third generation of diplomats were not so embarrassed. Such diplomats as Huang Zunxian had passed the imperial examination and entered the foreign affairs department, and then studied diplomatic knowledge in the foreign affairs official school before they were sent to various foreign embassies for internships.
Compared with the first generation of wild road, the training of big diplomats has been quite formal and never forced.
So they will never be frightened by this blackmail.
The Russians went out of Huludao with the permission of the Qing Dynasty and did not forcefully stop Russia from violating all international norms, and would not be supported by the state and would be resisted by the international community.
The Great retorted that the Little Big has won the support of some countries, and at the same time said that the Great Big does not reject Russia’s economic interests in the East. It is very supportive of Russia’s trade with the Great Big, but Russia’s entry into the China Ocean has threatened the great country’s security, and there is no choice in the face of national security.
The irony of the Russian representative depends heavily on the British, who naturally tell the big representative that Russia is not afraid of Britain, and that Russia will not bow before Britain if it loses its national strength to Britain.
The representative woke up that Russia’s Crimean war was not good-looking, and said that even without British support, he was able to fight a Crimean war with Russia alone, not long ago, France was an example
After a day of quarreling, the two sides held substantive negotiations in Bismarck.
Russia says that they are willing to accept concessions in Huludao, but they must make compensation. They demand that Russia not only share the Qinhuangdao embassy, but also allow Russia to station troops in Qinhuangdao to protect Russian railway safety.
The representative said that Russia’s unrealistic ambitions for Qinhuangdao will bring war to Russia, and it can give Qinhuangdao benefits to Russia to a limited extent if it is compensated, but Russia has commercial interests in Qinhuangdao and no other interests.
The representative also gave Russia a big permission to enter Qinhuangdao, and Russia must transfer the benefits of the Chaktu railway to Daxie. According to the previous year, it was agreed with Russia that the conditions of the Chaktu-Dalian railway should occupy half of the benefits of the Chaktu-Qinhuangdao railway and send half of the management personnel to participate in railway management.
Russia sternly rejected Dali’s request, saying that the Chaktu Railway is the lifeline of Russia and Russia will never make concessions on this issue.
The negotiations were once deadlocked, and Bismarck constantly adjusted from it, showing high diplomatic skills and releasing his powerful influence to the outside world.
The British are paying close attention to the progress of the negotiations, and they have repeatedly felt that the negotiations will break down. The conditions between the two sides are too different, and war may break out at any time.
The British don’t know that Zhu Jinglun has a newspaper to bring the Russians back to the negotiating table at any time. When necessary, the conference will make concessions, including directly letting Russia get Huludao. No matter how nervous, the negotiations will not break down in the end.
With the progress of the negotiations, the British repeatedly urged large-scale military action, saying that Russia should stop the project in Huludao and that giving Russia some military pressure would help Russia make concessions at the negotiating table.
In general, Britain is eager to fight this battle and return the Russians from the ocean to the mainland, but it is like a procrastination if it does not act.
While the big ones are beneficial to Britain repeatedly, Britain still needs a big favorable situation. In the process of dividing up Nanyang, the Singapore Conference constantly asked Britain to support all kinds of demands.
At almost the same time, the diplomatic activities of the East and the West interacted with each other, interfered with each other and promoted each other. There is no other moment in the world that is so closely linked as it is now, like a net. If you pull it here, it will move.
In the end, Bismarck, a veteran, did a lot of work privately, and both the Russian diplomat and the Russian diplomat found out the bottom line of the other side or found out the bottom line of the other side themselves without knowing that Bismarck wanted them to think so.
The negotiations went smoothly again and both sides made concessions.
Russia said it wouldn’t get its hands on Qinhuangdao, while the big one said it wouldn’t ask for the Chaktu Railway. Russia got the unrestricted access to Qinhuangdao, while the big one got the construction and operation of the railway from Qinhuangdao to Huludao, but it was necessary to adopt Russian standards to build this railway so that Russian trains could enter Qinhuangdao all the way from Chaktu.
At this time, the negotiations have been going on for a whole year, which makes the British feel very depressed. Russia’s entry into Qinhuangdao will inevitably prolong and complicate the contradiction between Britain and Russia. Once it is delayed for a long time, things will be full of variables. Britain does not recognize that it can always fight against Russia on Britain’s side.
Just before the end of the year, Da had already discussed the specific terms with Russia. Suddenly, the big army showed its actions in Huludao, and did not recruit the big army to Huludao to confront the Russian army nervously.
The Ministry of War declared that a big soldier was missing. All the conditions were that the Russian army attacked and kidnapped the big soldier in Huludao and asked to enter the Huludao fortress for a search.
The situation suddenly became tense, and the war seemed to be on the verge.
Great urgent note Britain hopes to get British support. Britain didn’t expect this to happen again. No matter whether the disappearance of the big soldier is a fact or an excuse, Ma promised all the demands, including paying military aid for the second year.
At this time, after a long year of negotiations, the Singapore meeting finally reached a series of agreements to be implemented on the basis of the general resolution on Nanyang interests