Welcome to 19th-century Europe, where strength reigns supreme

As the momentum of the Paris Commune gradually grew, it aroused strong dissatisfaction in a European country.

It must be a stock with great potential for revolution. As the most important part of the balance of power on the European continent, it has a large number of feudal remnants and has a serious ptsd against the French + Revolution.

Of course it is the legendary Third Rome, the paradise of the powerful, the place where great power chauvinism prevails, the Russian Empire.

By the late [-]th century, Russia had almost reached its end. In this world line, the Crimean War did not start in the end. Russia spent a large part of its energy on expanding eastward. , although it also tried to reach out to the Balkans.

However, the paper strength of Britain and France in this timeline was a little stronger than that of OTL. The pressure from Britain and France made the Russian Empire change its diplomatic thinking, so in the end the war failed to start.

But it doesn't matter even if they fail to fight, it doesn't matter whether they fight or not. These saved military expenditures played some role in the later competition with Ming Dynasty for eastern territory, but of course they were all squandered quickly.

Tsarist Russia was still the same Tsarist Russia, relying on the human sea tactics to pile up the enemy. In the end, most of the Far East was included in the territory, but the consumption during this period was very serious.

Russia is a country that takes great difficulties to the extreme. It is too big. Russia's territory west of the Urals alone is more than five times that of France. And by coincidence, this country's industrial strength is very weak. There is no railway at all.

Tsarist Russia in OTL easily occupied the huge Far East region because it encountered no hard problems. But now the overlord of the Far East is the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty is also facing a serious internal crisis, it is difficult to deal with those real colonizers. The great powers may be able to choke you, but if you attack a weak Russia, it's not a big problem.

When Alexander II came to the throne, the Far Eastern War was still going on. In the end, Tsarist Russia was slightly better. This was luck. It happened that a peasant uprising broke out in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether it could win.

For these reasons, Alexander II also understood the current problems in Tsarist Russia. The first was the issue of serfdom. The Russian Empire had the most extensive territory in Europe, and Ukraine, the largest grain-producing area in Europe, so the population was growing at a rapid rate. Not too slow.

At present, the entire Russian Empire has a population of about [-] million, which is smaller than the population of Britain and France combined. However, [-]% of them are serfs, completely tied to the land, and production efficiency is very low. And it also seriously hindered the development of capitalism based on wage-free labor.

Coupled with the war in the Far East, the government's annual expenditures have been rising year by year, and there is basically nothing left in the country. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had to save supplies for several years before he dared to fight the Huns during long-distance raids. , Tsarist Russia did not care about the cost at all.

Basically, they fight every year and never stop. If you do this, even two large Ukrainian granaries will not be enough for you. Moreover, they also like to do addition and subtraction. Assume that running [-] kilometers requires [-] kilograms of grain. , then they really only give them one thousand kilograms of food after traveling a thousand kilometers, completely ignoring the consumption on the road and the problems encountered in emergencies. Moreover, Tsarist Russia has not yet built a railway in the Far East.

The main theme is to torture soldiers. Many people had a lot of complaints against your tsarist government. Now that you do it again, it's strange that everyone doesn't make a fuss.

Alexander II also tried his best to change it, but there are still some problems no matter how he changed it. Serf liberation, land reform, economic construction, etc., he drew on a lot of successful cases, such as August's violent law enforcement... It seems that this can't be learned. .

The Tsar relied on his group of nobles to lead the army, and the army was not loyal to him alone. He also had a large group of nobles to support. How could he possibly get rid of them all?

Alexander II's reforms were a powerful dose of medicine, so he had been worrying about whether to continue the fight. The serfdom reforms implemented by Alexander II touched the interests of the vast majority of Russian landowners and aristocrats, and met with fierce opposition. The momentum was extremely large, but You have to understand, so liberation can indeed solve it, but it can only liberate half of it. You are free, but you still have to work for the landlord.

It's like tying you back again. He wanted to imitate Lilian's transformation of the British Empire, but found that it couldn't be done because there was no money. The tsarist government couldn't afford to support so many civil servants, and it couldn't even think about things like social welfare. The life of an official is difficult, how can you, a worker, still want to live a good life?

The British Empire has old books to build on. They have the most advanced industrial system in the world, and their colonies can continuously pay taxes to Britain.

However, most of the territory occupied by Tsarist Russia has no economic effect. At least in this era, the economic effect it can produce is extremely limited. There are enough resources in the Ural Mountains. Can you dig them out? Do you know that you don’t have this strength?

Alexander II spent a lot of money to hire some consultants from Germany, built modern factories in several important towns, such as Minsk, Smolensk, Petrograd, and Moscow, and planned several railways to the Urals. , finally achieved some development in industry.

But he also encountered many problems. Many powerful landowners opposed him, and those in distant places did not even obey his tsarist orders.

Originally, there were hundreds of riots in Tsarist Russia every year, and there were riots in several places almost every day. The ruling class hoped that it would not change. Wouldn't it be quite profitable to change anything? Why are you always thinking about your reforms?

But if we don't change, there will be other problems. The working class and the peasant class will soon be ready to show you what it means that a single spark can start a prairie fire.

They don't want top-down, they want bottom-up, and they want to kill the Russian Empire with one punch.

Looking at the whole world, the one most likely to turn red is indeed Tsarist Russia, because life is so sad. The recent events in the Paris Commune have given Alexander II a headache. Just because of the Paris Commune, he fucked his prostate. Did the splits.

In just two months, more than [-] riots and more than [-] strikes broke out in Moscow. Railway workers even dug up the railway lines and base stations just to disgust the government.

The riots in the past were very common because no one really believed that the proletariat could be the master of the country. Because there was no precedent, the people at the forefront must be the most afraid. No one wanted to be the one who stood out.

Now the Paris Commune has stood up, rallying the oppressed people and shouting, "Don't kneel! Come with me, gun in hand, and fuck them."

It proves to the world that people at the bottom can also control their own destiny.

The Tsar was just afraid that one day Russia would establish a Moscow Commune, and then with a wave of his hand, the whole country would respond, go out independently, and establish something like the Russian Democratic Republic. That would be bad.

Alexander II decided to help France suppress the Paris Commune.