I am rich in martial arts, but choose culture to win

Italians...

Except for their navy and mountain infantry, which are still brave, other...

of course……

And their football team.

Zhu Fugui still remembers that three years ago, the Italians inexplicably sent a men's football team with canned seafood across the ocean to Daming, messing up the champion he had appointed in the second World Cup.

It seems that this time we can finally avenge the old and new hatred together!

For the betrayal of the Italians, Zhu Fugui decided to take revenge.

But what he is more worried about now is, can Brother William still hold on?

According to Ambassador Zhao of Daming in Berlin, he has not had coffee, even artificial coffee, for more than half a year.

If the current situation in London is hyperinflation and skyrocketing prices, then the situation in Berlin today is even worse.

At least the goods are available in the UK, but they are expensive. Rich men can still enjoy afternoon tea filled with sugar.

However, Germany has already experienced a shortage of various materials. Except for wheat, which can still maintain self-sufficiency, many other daily necessities, even the rationing system, are difficult to maintain.

This is mainly due to the complete blockade of trade routes.

Because of the early declaration of war, Germany's High Seas Fleet has not yet been established.

And even if it is established, under the blockade of the British Royal Navy, the immature German navy can only be used as an offshore battery.

In other words, the North Sea ports on which Germany depends for survival are completely blocked.

And the southern supply line they depended on for survival before—the 2B railway, with the fall of Constantinople, an important node, is no longer able to operate.

Without Ming's blood transfusion, without cheap pork knuckles and tractor floors, the war potential of the Germans is also rapidly declining.

In order to reverse this situation, all the key points finally fell on one place - the negotiating table in Budapest.

Prior to this, Daming had the upper hand in negotiations based on his position of strength.

However, being so mixed up by Italy, although it cannot be said that the offensive and defensive momentum is different, Daming's position is definitely not as favorable as before.

After all, Grand Duke Nicholas Navic said that winter in Siberia is a terrible disaster, and the Eastern European plains in spring are even more muddy. These are all real situations.

Chapter 809 So, what is the price?

A soldier must have a backbone, so Liu Jintang is willing to walk to Moscow with a pair of iron feet.

But the commander-in-chief cannot be angry with nature.

Zhu Fugui knew very well that the "Winter's Wrath", which ruined Napoleon and Hitler's copy of the Wuchang, was not so easy, and there was no need to stud the enemy in such a ghostly place unless it was a last resort.

After passing telegrams with the frontline missions, it was another three days of negotiation.

Knowing that "the advantage lies with me", Nikolai Navic will not give in so easily this time.

The Russians killed them at once. The natural boundary between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Ming Empire was the Ural Mountains. The east of the Ural Mountains belonged to Daming, and the west of the Ural Mountains belonged to Rome.

For such a request...

In fact, if there was no plan that was almost negotiated before, Zhu Fugui would be completely acceptable.

But now it's too uncomfortable to go back and forth like this.

Just like stock trading, the most painful thing is never a loss, but a shortfall.

Ignorance is bliss.

It is a great misfortune to know that the meat that could have been eaten in the mouth is gone.

Whatever he said now, Zhu Fugui couldn't accept his original psychological bottom line.

In order to break Maozi's psychological defense again, Zhu Fugui formulated two plans...

……

On the ninth day of the negotiation, the private room in the Gloria Hotel.

Bottles of vodka and Mingchun had been scattered all over the place.

Xia Zhixin had already slumped under the sofa unconscious.

Zhao Xizhu and Liu Jintang held the wine glasses as if they weighed a thousand catties.

They looked at Grand Duke Nikolaevich with red eyes, and the latter poured down a small cup of Damingchun.

"Not bad, my brother, your wine is really good!"

Nikolai Navic was obviously drunk too, put his arms around Liu Jintang and said, "Liu, when it comes to fighting, we Russians can't do it, and when it comes to drinking...hehe..."

Liu Jintang looked up at the sky, and the tears of failing the trust of the Long Live Lord rolled in his eyes.

What you can't get at the negotiating table, you can't get at the wine table.

"No, the emperor's grace is mighty, our Chu army will never admit defeat!"

Suddenly, Liu Jintang's eyes turned red, and he raised his glass again, about to pour the wine down his throat.

Fortunately, Zhao Xizhu still had reason, so he quickly stopped him: "You are crazy, have you forgotten the instructions of the Long Live Lord? Do what you can, shabby A is not enough, and shabby B!"

"But I..."

Liu Jintang wanted to say something more, but he felt his eyes getting blurred, his head getting heavier and heavier, and finally fell down on the table with a plop...

……

Later generations often say that wine table culture is a traditional bad habit in China.

That must be true.

Zhu Fugui also doesn't like the way of talking about things and feelings at the wine table.

But from the point of view of comparison, the wine table culture is definitely not unique to China.

The Russians know this well.

The predecessors of New China have many masters of wine. Through their own drinking capacity, they have made great contributions to the start of the country's industrialization at the negotiation table with the Soviets.

It's a pity that Zhu Fugui didn't think of this trick before, and didn't arrange for talented people with extraordinary drinking capacity to participate in the negotiation with the team, which eventually led to the Ming negotiating team being sent by Grand Duke Nikolai Navic to fight against Lu Bu.

Of course, brother Xia Zhixin is just a make-up, the kind that is more bastard than Liu Bei and Liu Xuande.

After one or two vodkas, he would be ruined immediately.

Fortunately, both Zhao Xizhu and Liu Jintang were young men with excellent physical fitness, and they were finally called Maozi, who almost overturned his car.

Zhu Fugui took special care of them to do what they can, because something really happened in history.

That was when the third brother bought a nuclear submarine from Maozi, he didn't know what their brain circuits were thinking, and sent a few devout Hindus who usually don't drink alcohol to negotiate.

As a result, in order to bargain and take advantage of the price, they went to the Russians to fight for alcohol, and they were directly poisoned by alcohol. Some of them even died on the spot.

Of course, after being made such a fuss by the third brother, the price must have been cut down.

Mao Zi was also afraid.

But that's also bullshit.

Zhu Fugui can't do such an outrageous thing, his own body comes first.

Having had a drink with Representative Maozi, the benefits are obvious.

The next afternoon, the two sides continued to negotiate with spare energy, and the atmosphere between them was very good.

Even as soon as they met, Grand Duke Nikolai Navich said enthusiastically: "My friends, if you have the opportunity to go to Moscow, I invite you to eat real vodka made of Daliba!"

After bragging about each other, Zhao Xizhu took out His Majesty Zhu Fugui's real trump card, which is the tattered B...

……

"What? You mean, you want to build a railway across Siberia from Tianjin Port to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Constantinople?"

Nikolay Navic was shocked and speechless when he heard the plan given by Daming.

"Yes, His Majesty calls it the Xianbeilia Railway, or the Mingluo First Land Bridge, or the New Silk Road. It will span eight time zones, and the total length is expected to exceed 8 kilometers!" Zhao Xizhu unfolded the world map, Roughly outline the route with a pencil.

Xia Zhixin also added: "Actually, this is one of the miracle projects of our Ministry of Industry. The project budget is about 1 million yuan, equivalent to 15 billion rubles."

"15 billion rubles!"

Nikolai Navic almost said the number biting his tongue.

Before the British pound collapsed, 15 billion rubles was worth about 4 million pounds.

The annual fiscal revenue (not GDP, but fiscal revenue) of the British government is less than 1 million pounds.

The impoverished imperialist Tsarist Russia has a fiscal revenue of less than 1 million rubles a year!

And nearly half of it is the income from the vodka monopoly!

However, you tell me that it costs 15 billion rubles to build such a railway?

This is the money that can only be earned back by selling vodka for 30 years!

However, after experiencing the initial shock and slowly calming down, Nikolay Navic began to think about how much Russia, as the new Eastern Roman Empire, would gain if this so-called "New Silk Road" could really be opened. What about the huge benefits?

After all, whether it is Dongluo, Persia, or Arabia in history, didn’t they all rely on the Silk Road to make a lot of money?

That is to say, with the advent of the age of great voyages, land commerce lost its advantage, and Ottomans, the previous big country across Europe and Asia, became increasingly impoverished.

Otherwise, why should those beggars in Western Europe compete with the Eastern monarchs for wealth and ostentation?

If there is really a railway on the Eurasian continent... then, will the land trade that has declined in the era of sea power be revived again?

Even if the land transportation from Western Europe to the Ming Dynasty is still inferior to the sea transportation, at least Russia, ah no, our Eastern Roman Empire itself, through this railway, can be closely integrated with the trade network of the Ming Dynasty, bringing huge benefits...

Ming country...

That's a market of more than 5 million people!

As long as 1% of them like to drink vodka...

Not to mention, through the railway, Moscow will no longer have to look at the faces of Britain and France, and can buy everything it wants, whether it is cars from the Ming Dynasty or luxury goods with Chinese rhymes, they will once again become the hearts of Roman princes and ladies. alright.

Everything is as it was 2000 years ago.

"My friends……"

After a long silence, Nikolay Navic raised his head, looked at the Ming delegation, and asked word by word, "Then... what is the price?"

Chapter 810 Ming Chess

What is the cost?

This is a good question.

We are all adults, so we naturally know that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

In particular, except for his wife and daughter who are loyal readers of the great writer Huang He, Alexander II and Zhu Fugui have no personal relationship at all, and there is no possibility of PY transactions.

But Zhu Fugui is also very clear that poor people like Tsarist Russia can't squeeze much oil and water.

Historically, this large railway that runs through Europe and Asia can be said to be the last glory of the Russian Empire, but it is also the last straw that crushes this poor empire.

Although the railway was built in 1891, during the reign of Alexander III, in fact, the person in charge of the construction of this railway was none other than the last Tsar Nicholas who received the red happy family bucket. II.

Of course, when he was in charge of building the railway, Nicholas II only personally served as the chairman of the "Special Management Committee of the Trans-Siberian Railway" as the crown prince.

The 20 billion rubles that the Commission spent on this large railway back and forth far exceeded Russia's military expenditure during the same period, so that when the First World War, the Russians sent troops ambitiously to "protect" the Orthodox church members and Slavs in the Balkans. When I was with my compatriots, I realized that the treasury was empty.

Out of the grief of the reactionary emperor, Zhu Fugui did not want Nicholas II to be hung up as a street lamp.

Of course, that was decades later, and he couldn't care less.

But at least Zhu Fugui tried to avoid these Slavic asses from falling into debt crisis so early.

At least you can't default on the salaries of the sailors, right?

Therefore, the road construction plan given by Zhu Fugui must not be considered harsh.

First of all, the road construction cost of the entire railway is 15 billion rubles, which is actually a very generous figure.

The full name of the Russian ruble in the nineteenth century is called the silver ruble, which is a currency anchored to silver.

From 1876 today to 1891 when construction started in history, 15 years have passed.