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At the same time, the "Agreement" also stipulated that the sovereignty over all the waters of the Caspian Sea belonged to Ming Dynasty, and the Russian Caucasus region was not allowed to enclose the lake for farming, go fishing in the lake, or conduct any economic activities.

In Alexander II's view, Daming had a good reason for doing so.

As we all know, the people of Ming Dynasty love to eat seafood.

This is the bad atmosphere brought out by the dog emperor Zhu Fugui.

The simple situation of throwing away the big crabs and scrambling for fat pork has long since ceased to exist.

All kinds of fish, shrimp, crab and snails have gradually become a common food on the rich table of Ming people.

Although the Caspian Sea is just a lake, just like there are seals and sharks in Lake Baikal, the Caspian Sea, as the largest saltwater lake in the world, also produces seafood.

In addition to no whales, there are seals, silver sweats, gobies, salmon, and various crabs, which are numerous and of high quality.

Daming is an empire in the Pacific Rim, so naturally there is no shortage of seafood.

However, the Beiting Duhu Mansion of the Ming Dynasty is located in the north of the Tianshan Mountains and extends westward to the western foot of the Ural Mountains.

For the people here, wanting to eat fresh Pacific aquatic products is undoubtedly a dream.

The Caspian Sea can fully meet their needs.

Therefore, Zhu Fugui intends to exchange 100 million tons of high-quality steel with the Russian Empire for absolute control over the Caspian Sea.

At the same time, Ming promised to provide 800 pounds of black caviar to the Russian royal family for free every year.

After Alexander II sobered up, he lay down on the map carefully, comparing place names with place names, and finally confirmed that Zhu Fugui really did not take advantage of others.

The delta that Daming rowed away was just a small area of ​​less than 1T.

As for Kuba in Azerbaijan...

What kind of place is that big booger, brother Zhu Fugui wants to eat seafood, just take it!

In fact, in this day and age, Alexander II really didn't see any value in the Caspian Sea except for producing the world's best black caviar, which was eaten with vodka.

This closed saltwater lake is completely different from the Black Sea, with no straits leading to the ocean, and its value for shipping is very limited.

In addition, Alexander II heard from agricultural experts that the Turan lowlands east of the Caspian Sea are actually a beautiful trap.

The Turan lowland looks flat, with fertile soil and plenty of sunshine, but in fact it is limited by water resources and its agricultural output is very low.

The high-salt lake water of the Caspian Sea cannot be used for irrigation at all. The Ming Dynasty can only build a series of water conservancy projects in the upper reaches of the river to intercept the fresh water flowing into the Caspian Sea.

Not to mention how time-consuming and labor-intensive these projects are, just say that the runoff of a few small rivers in Central Asia is so much, no matter how much water conservancy is built, it is impossible to conjure water out of thin air.

The more irrigation water is used, the less water will be injected into the Caspian Sea, and eventually the Caspian Sea will gradually shrink and even dry up.

In this way, the "Mingluo Supplementary Treaty" stipulated that the sovereignty of the Caspian Sea waters belonged to Ming Dynasty, which became a dead letter.

Of course, there is such a slim possibility.

That is, the Ming Dynasty completed the super project to cut off the Ob River, the Yenisei River and other rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean, divert water from the north to the south, and irrigate the Central Asian Plain.

This is of course a fool's dream.

Except for the time when the Soviets tried it seriously in the era of Xunzong, and ended up wasting money and dying without a problem, normal people would not be able to do such a crazy thing.

So no matter how Alexander II calculated it, taking such a broken lake and the surrounding places with a lot of boogers in exchange for half of the annual production of steel in Russia from Daming is really a bargain!

Before the war, the Russian Empire’s annual steel production had barely quadrupled from 509500 tons to 200 million tons.

This figure is not even as good as the 600 million tons of Ming Dynasty, 300 million tons of Germany, and 1000 million tons of the United Kingdom before the outbreak of the war, and it is only on par with France's 200 million tons.

The Slavs without the blessing of the five-year plan are so hip-pull, it is not an exaggeration to say that they are a big "Qing".

But no matter how to say it, after Russia, or the Eastern Roman Empire received a large wave of the Ottoman Empire's legacy, its land area reached an astonishing...

570 million square kilometers... (pictured)

No way, the Mercator map makes the area of ​​​​Russian Mao too bluffing, and the territory of Russian Mao in the Arctic has been severely enlarged.

From the map, he is bigger than Duguo, but actually slightly smaller.

Unless he continues to go south to control the Gulf, Iran and other places, Ming will never allow this.

Despite the serious shrinkage, there is no doubt that the quality of these 570 million square kilometers is much better than the 1900 million square kilometers of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

Russia currently has a population of nearly 1.8 million, which is even larger than the population of Russia in the 21st century. It is a well-deserved superpower.

However, for obvious reasons, it is doubtful whether these populations can be transformed into national power.

Steel production is the most intuitive data to measure a country's national strength in this era. Russia's 1.8 million people only produced 200 million tons of steel, which is very telling.

This time, Zhu Fugui took out 100 million tons of steel in one breath, which undoubtedly greatly enhanced Alexander II's confidence in recasting King's Castle.

"I didn't expect Zhu Fugui to be such a benevolent gentleman. Even if I was drunk, he didn't take advantage of the danger and instigate me to sign an unequal treaty..."

Alexander II couldn't help recalling the scene of Zhu Fugui traveling thousands of miles to rescue his dog-meat friend during the bombing of Constantinople, and couldn't help being slightly lost in thought.

After a long time, he let out a long sigh: "Zhu Fugui... what a good man!"

……

If Alexander II had a map of the Caspian Sea oil and gas fields produced by later generations, he would not have made such an exclamation. (as pictured)

How can Zhu Fugui be a good person!

He is an evil ghost who smashes bones and sucks marrow!It's the disgusting Grandet!They are capitalists and finalists who are more cunning than the Jews!

Twelve years ago, during the second war between Ming and France, Ming assisted Mexico in fighting the French invasion.

After the war, Ming took away some barren hills in the north from Mexico.

For the next ten years, Daming never touched these barren hills.

Until two years ago, a group of young students from Daming Guozijian Institute of Geology, who were collecting materials for their graduation thesis, "accidentally" discovered that these barren hills were actually rich in various minerals, and in one of the basins, there was even a huge reserve of minerals. oilfield……

This time, under the land that Zhu Fugui cut off from Tsarist Russia, there is an even more astonishing amount of oil and natural gas buried.

At some point after several years, another group of Daming students who came to collect folk songs would discover them by chance.

And this discovery will definitely shock the whole world.

This is not a trivial matter like the Mexican oil field, but a world-class discovery.

The Caspian Basin is the largest depression in the world, with many areas below sea level.

It is also known as the second Persian Gulf.

But in fact, this statement is not accurate.

The oil industry in the Caspian Sea started earlier than in the Gulf.

Before the discovery of huge oil in the Persian Gulf Basin, the Caspian Sea Basin was the pillar of the world oil market. In 1901, the Caspian Sea’s crude oil production reached 1100 million tons, accounting for 50% of the world’s total crude oil production at that time.

In 1940, the oil production of Azerbaijan alone reached 2200 million tons, accounting for 71% of the Soviet Union's national production at that time.

And the little horn that Zhu Fugui is going to leave, the little Baku, accounts for more than 95% of Azerbaijan's oil production.

After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Azerbaijan also relied on its oil resources to crush neighboring Armenia's national strength a little bit. In the end, it was ashamed in the war, and the latter paid a heavy price.

And these, Zhu Fugui only used 100 million tons of scrap steel to buy enough oil to build a red empire.

Although the Ming Dynasty does not directly control the Middle East, it already possesses the oil resources of the two super empires of the United States and the Soviet Union.

Coupled with the oil reserves in Venezuela in South America, the large oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico and Southeast Asia...

It can be said that even if the Eastern princes of this time and space still established the OPEC Petroleum Alliance, even if Ming Dynasty did not follow the example of the US imperialists in oppressing by force, but only used oil reserves and economic weapons, mere OPEC would still have to act according to Ming's face.

Chapter 883 I have never been aggressive in my life

The negotiation atmosphere between Ming Dynasty and the Eastern Roman Empire was friendly and progressed rapidly, and the negotiation was almost done within a glass of wine.

Steel is exchanged for land, and both parties get what they need, and everyone is happy.

Zhu Fugui was not surprised by this either.

Because Daming and Russia really have nothing to talk about.

Since the second year of Dewu, when the first ocean-going armed merchant ship of Ming Dynasty had a fierce battle with a Russian whaling ship in the waters of Xiongdao, Ming Dynasty and Russia have been fighting on and off for more than ten years.

Although in essence it was Da Ming who beat Mao Xiong unilaterally, it was actually a process in which the two sides got to know each other's strengths and weaknesses.

The British say that there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends in the world.

This is a classic speech of the older generation of shit-stirring sticks, but it makes sense.

The Maozi who retreated to the west of the Ural Mountains is naturally a good Maozi and a reliable partner of Daming.

Of course, Daming also made major concessions for this.

Zhu Fugui said to the Russian envoy and Alexander II more than once, "I didn't take back Crimea, I'm sorry for Mrs. Sotna, but for the friendship between us Mingluo, I have worked hard, painfully, and under pressure. Land, gave up Crimea in exchange for peace between Mingluo..."

Whenever he heard Zhu Fugui say that, Alexander II would break out in a cold sweat, and quickly said, 'Minghuang Gaoyi'.

Just kidding, how important Crimea is, how could it be ceded to Zhu Fugui.

Even if it takes 1000 million tons of steel, this matter is not negotiable.

There are too many stories happening on the magical peninsula of Crimea.

It used to be the back garden of the Athenians, the starting point for the Black Death to conquer Europe, and the battlefield where Britain and France humiliated the Russian giants.

The most important thing is that once Crimea falls, Russia's homeland of the Eastern European Plain will be separated from the newly acquired Eastern Mediterranean region, which is absolutely unacceptable to Russia.

Of course, Zhu Fugui said that he was sorry for Sautna for not taking Crimea back. Although it was an extortionate price, it was not groundless.

Because the Crimean Khanate was the last stronghold of the Mongols in Europe, it was established by a descendant of Genghis Khan's eldest son, Jochi, and lasted until the end of the eighteenth century.

In 1783, the Russian Empire annexed the Crimean Khanate, and the last Crimean Khan was sent to Rhode Island, Greece, where he was beheaded by the Turks, less than 100 years ago.

Mongolia, Russia, Greece, Turks, plus the West Ukrainians who were separated from the Slav compatriots in Austria at this time... Just by hearing these names, you can know how sharp the ethnic conflicts in this ghost place are.

Daming is almost suffering from indigestion of the land he has already acquired, so naturally he has no plans to annex Crimea.

Zhu Fugui's mention of this place was nothing more than strategic blackmail.

In short, under Zhu Fugui's diplomatic strategy of not being too greedy and only greedy a little bit, Alexander II felt the sincerity of Ming Dynasty. Except for some small differences on the ownership of some resources of the Outer Tatarstan Khanate, the two sides have basically settled down. A full consensus was reached.

This can be regarded as a good start for the talks between the Three Emperors.

Zhu Fugui originally thought that the next point of conflict in the talks between the Three Emperors would be between Daming and the Second Empire of Independence.

After all, Zhu Fugui has already seen that the young emperor who has the three qualities of [chattering clown], [naive diplomat], and [impulsive and irritable] is indeed very worrying.

He seemed dissatisfied with Ming's increasingly assertive stance in the Ming independence alliance.

This time, William II recruited the Russians to support himself and increase his confidence to challenge Daming.

These are all internal reference materials analyzed by Daming's intelligence department based on reliable information, and Zhu Fugui also thinks they are very reasonable.

However, to Zhu Fugui's surprise, before he quarreled with William II, William II actually took the lead in arguing with the called helper Alexander II.

To be reasonable, the six princesses of Alexander II are all older than William, and William should respect this veteran comrade who has been in the political arena for 30 years.

However, this guy obviously doesn't know what it means to respect the old and love the young, and he doesn't give the old man any face at all.

The flashpoint of the conflict appeared in an area that Zhu Fugui's [-] brain circuits had never thought of-reconciliation.

As early as when William was still the grandson of the emperor and his mother, Princess Victoria, was still in the building, he used to follow his mother to Windsor Castle to visit relatives.

There, William met the daughter of Princess Alice of England and his cousin, Elizabeth Alexandra Louise Alice, Princess of Hesse and the Rhine. (as pictured)

Although from Zhu Fugui's point of view, the appearance of this Princess Elizabeth is completely incomparable with the appearance of Princess Sissi who is also named Elizabeth, and the appearance of the super long standby Elizabeth Youth Version, but William II is incomparable The cure fell in love with her.

He expressed his passionate love to his cousin, but was flatly rejected by the latter.

And so, faithful Wilhelm II...

Turn around and forget about her.

In the final analysis, this is just an unrequited love when Chunxin was ignorant, and if she blows it, she blows it.

For William, who tasted the happiness of a man from the belly of a maid at the age of 12, this is nothing.

But just yesterday, in this extremely distant Suiye City, William unexpectedly saw that little cousin who only occasionally appeared in Spring's Sweet Dreams.

At this time, she was already someone else's wife.

Elizabeth Feodorovna is now the wife of Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth prince of the Eastern Roman Empire, and has converted to the Orthodox Church.

Seeing the woman who once dismissed him gently holding another man's arm, William II's jealousy quickly overcame his reason.

He angrily denounced his cousin's heresy, and accused her of tarnishing the noble lineage of the princes of Shenluo by marrying a Russian.